Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands?

"Steven McKay's empirical data is rich, his writing is clear and informative, and the cases he examines display a fascinating range of workplace politics within a broadly similar national, technological, and market context. Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? will have a wide audience in sociology, industrial relations, and among critical scholars of globalization." -- Sean O'Riain, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
"This important and original book addresses workplace and labor issues of global significance. To my knowledge, there has not previously been an in-depth study of the developmental strategy or high-tech industrial production in the Philippines. Steven McKay's comparative case-study design is admirable and shows the variation across four firms in a single industry. His discussions of the more technical aspects of high-tech production are readily comprehensible to general readers. This book's firm-level data and worker narratives are rich, revealing, and at times moving." -- Ching Kwan Lee, University of Michigan
"Working in the best traditions of industrial ethnography Steven McKay shows how globalization, far from being the clichéd homogenizing force, fans out into a variety of production regimes. There's no best practice, but a wide range of locally sensitive managerial strategies to elicit worker commitment. Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? is a must-read for all those who study work and politics." -- Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley